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Trump urged Senate Republicans on Sunday to overrule the chamber’s parliamentarian in order to pass key parts of his sweeping domestic policy bill.

In a Sunday post on Truth Social, the president backed a call from Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) and other GOP hard-liners to ignore rulings from Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough.

The parliamentarian is the nonpartisan Senate official responsible for determining whether parts of laws meant to be passed through budget reconciliation comply with the rules for that process.

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    If the Senate can just “overrule” the parliamentarian whenever they want, what’s the point of having one?

    I mean in the end, it really doesn’t matter. I don’t know whether to call it a game of Calvinball or Who’s Line is it Anyway, but the end result is about the same: They’re just making up the rules as they go along, and ignoring their own rules once they become inconvenient, and not even trying to hide the fact that the actual rules (along with anyone who tries to enforce them) are going to be ignored.

    • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      The parliamentarian exists as a mechanism for the Democrats to blame when they steal defeat out of the jaws of victory

    • arrow74@lemmy.zip
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      4 days ago

      Unfortunately positions like the parliamentarian are not part of the law of the land and are a procedure put into place by the Senate. That means the senate can remove them at any time.

      It’s a bad system and was built to work on “good faith”.

      • IHeartBadCode@fedia.io
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        3 days ago

        But once they do, notions like the filibuster also fall apart. Republicans have been pretty in favor of using the filibuster whenever Democrats are in power. So they would be torching a really handy tool they like to keep around.

        • stringere@sh.itjust.works
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          3 days ago

          That’s based onthe assumption that they’re going to fall out of power. They’re only going kicking and screaming. Hopefully on the way to theor executions for treason.

          Better than execution, let’s strip their citzenship and deport them as they’re doing to our brothers and sisters now.

        • mriguy@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          From the way they are acting, they clearly don’t seriously think there will ever be a chance of them losing power, so they probably will go for it.

          Of course, they’re probably also fully aware that if the Democrats ever DO regain power, they will trip all over themselves to “let bygones be bygones” and restore the filibuster for the Republicans to use.